Computer Science Contracts in Scotland

Computer Science
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 114 101
Rank change year-on-year +40 -13 +23
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 57 50 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.58% 1.75% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.89% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 21
10th Percentile £411 £388 £306
25th Percentile £453 £448 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +25.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £614 £450
90th Percentile £655 £645 £610
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +23.81% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £47.11
% change year-on-year +2.10% +14.36% +10.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +70 30 £575 - 22
Glasgow -7 24 £453 -9.40% 12
Renfrewshire -4 1 £525 +0.96%
Aberdeen - 1 - - 8
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (17.54%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.77%) SAS
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) AWS
1 19 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) Snowflake
3 6 (10.53%) SaaS
4 4 (7.02%) OCI
4 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.26%) IaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (8.77%) iSCSI
1 5 (8.77%) SAN
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) 2G
3 1 (1.75%) 5G
3 1 (1.75%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Metadata
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.02%) DB2
3 2 (3.51%) Big Data
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (7.02%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) Gradle
4 2 (3.51%) JMeter
4 2 (3.51%) JUnit
4 2 (3.51%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (59.65%) Social Skills
2 25 (43.86%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (19.30%) Banking
4 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.53%) Finance
6 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Automotive
7 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Senior
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 8 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Python Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Design Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Flash
1 5 (8.77%) POSIX
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (3.51%) Dagger
2 2 (3.51%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (3.51%) Retrofit
2 2 (3.51%) Spring
3 1 (1.75%) Guice
3 1 (1.75%) Kafka
3 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.77%) NVMe
3 4 (7.02%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.02%) PKI
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Unix
2 6 (10.53%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.02%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.51%) Android
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.32%) DevOps
3 11 (19.30%) Data Engineering
4 10 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (17.54%) DataOps
4 10 (17.54%) GitOps
4 10 (17.54%) MLOps
4 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (15.79%) SQL Optimisation
6 8 (14.04%) Analytics
6 8 (14.04%) Data Security
7 7 (12.28%) Agile
7 7 (12.28%) Project Management
7 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.53%) High Availability
8 6 (10.53%) OO
9 5 (8.77%) Capacity Management
9 5 (8.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 18 (31.58%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) SQL
4 12 (21.05%) Perl
5 10 (17.54%) PL/SQL
5 10 (17.54%) Scala
6 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (70.18%) Degree
2 35 (61.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) CISA
6 1 (1.75%) CISM
6 1 (1.75%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) CRISC
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) COBIT
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) GRC
2 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.75%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) NFS
3 4 (7.02%) GPFS
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Oracle
2 10 (17.54%) Databricks
3 5 (8.77%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) Veritas
4 4 (7.02%) Brocade
4 4 (7.02%) EMC
4 4 (7.02%) IBM
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) NetApp
4 4 (7.02%) Sybase
5 1 (1.75%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.75%) CA
5 1 (1.75%) Citrix
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.75%) HP
5 1 (1.75%) McAfee
5 1 (1.75%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.75%) Symantec
5 1 (1.75%) VMware